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Oct. 21, 2005
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – – Beau Seabury, Tom Hagan and John Scaglione each went 2-for-3 and right-hander Michael Schwimer picked up his second win of the series in relief to lead the Orange Team past the Blue Team, 5-3, in the final game of Virginia’s Fall Orange-Blue Series at Davenport Field Friday night. Assistant coach Karl Kuhn picked up his first Orange-Blue Series win.
Schwimer pitched 2 2/3 innings in relief holding the Blue team to two hits while recording three strikeouts. Sean Doolittle and Nick Cruit each saw action on the mound in relief. Cruit earned the save after recording the final out of the game.
Trailing 5-2 in the top of the seventh inning, Blue started a late-inning rally. Mike Mitchell and Tim Henry led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Ryan Hudson drove in Mitchell pulling Blue within, 5-3. After Orange recorded two outs, Mike Campagna came to the plate with the tying runs on second and third. Cruit got Campagna to fly out to right field to end the game.
Orange scored three runs in the bottom of the second off three Blue errors to take a 3-2 lead. Scaglione delivered an RBI single to score Seabury, who had singled to reach base pulling Orange within, 2-1. Chance Gilmore then scored on an error by the pitcher and Scaglione scored on an error by the third baseman to put Orange ahead.
David Adams scored another run for the Orange Team in the bottom of the third. He walked, stole second and advanced to third on an error by the catcher. Left-fielder Brandon Guyer hit into a fielder’s choice to score Adams for the 4-2 Orange advantage.
Orange made it 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth when Patrick Wingfield scored after Guyer reached on an error.
Blue took the early 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Mitchell and Henry led off the game with back-to-back singles. Mitchell scored the first run of the game when he scored after Ryan Hudson hit into a double play. Blue added one in the top of the second. Campagna singled and moved to third after Matt Bernstine doubled down the left field line. Greg Miclat walked, loading the places. Mitchell drew an RBI walk giving Blue a 2-0 lead.
First-year right-handed pitcher Jacob Thompson started the game and pitched well for the Blue Team. Thompson tossed five innings. He gave up five hits, two walks and struck out one. All five of his runs were unearned. Jake Rule started for the Orange Team on the mound. Rule gave up two earned runs on four hits while walking three and striking out three. Doolittle threw two innings and allowed one run on four hits with strikeouts.
Seabury was named the Orange-Blue Series Most Valuable Player. He finished the series 3-for-9 with two runs scored and one RBI. Mitchell had a great series for the Blue Team. He finished the series 5-for-10 with four runs scored and one RBI. Hudson went 5-for-10 with three RBI for Blue.